How do rumors spread during a crisis? Analysis of rumor expansion and disaffirmation on Twitter after 3.11 in Japan

International Journal of Web Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 394-412

  Miyabe, Mai ^a   Nadamoto, Akiyo ^b   Aramaki, Eiji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced web applications; Web mining; Web search and information extraction

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DISASTER SITUATIONS; GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; RUMOR PROPAGATION; WEB APPLICATION; WEB MINING; WEB SEARCHES;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84926678915     PISSN: 17440084     EISSN: 17440092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJWIS-04-2014-0015     Document Type: Article

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